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  • Nov 8, 2026, 2:09 PM

    It is a slight annoyance to me when written posts or media strip foreign names of diacritics (for obvious reasons it annoys me for Polish specifically). It happens a surprising amount.

    Those little dots and lines and squiggles and whatnot are not there for decoration. They're part of the word, they mean shit. I am not asking you to pronounce these, but write them out. Everything online is in Unicode, it's not a huge ask.

    Your keyboard doesn't allow these characters to be typed in? So what, it's literally a matter of copy pasting that letter into your text. MS Office and OpenOffice have those characters available, and there are actual websites for lists of Unicode characters, complete with a "Copy to clipboard" button on screen.

    You can spare the extra 15 seconds. I'm not asking you to write in the ancient tongue of R'lyeh there.

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  • Nov 8, 2026, 2:17 PM

    @oddtail plus both Android and iOS keyboards expose diacritics and non-Latin letters by holding the “base” letter.
    Plus both Windows and macOS allow for that as well.
    I’m not about to email my client in Central Europe and misspell their name. That’s just unprofessional.

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  • Nov 8, 2026, 2:22 PM

    @oddtail and that goes for pronunciation as well. Is it really that hard to listen to how people pronounce their own name and how their colleagues do in a meeting?
    I know people who only speak certain languages (American English and Peninsular Spanish come to mind) tend to have less exposure to a whole bunch of phonemes, but butchering your current or contractor’s name is always gonna be a bad look.
    Oh, and making fun of Chinese people’s chosen English-language names? Don’t even get me started.

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